Multidimensional improvement programs of chickpea require screening of a large number of genotypes for straw nutritive value. The ability of near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) to determine the nutritive value of chickpea straw was...
The cultivated lentil (Lens culinaris ssp.
culinaris) is an annual herbaceous selfpollinating true diploid (2n=2x=14) species
with an estimated genome size of 4063
Mbp/C (Arumuganathan and Earle, 1991).
The crop is one of the first domesticated...
Actual Evapotranspiration (ETa) is the main component required to understand both hydrological and
ecological processes between the land surface and the atmosphere. Reliable spatiotemporal
measurements of ET are important for water resources planning...
Agriculture and agri-food systems of the highly vulnerable Middle East and North Africa
(MENA) region needs a radical transformation under a changing climate. Based on a two-year effort,
initially we developed a mega hypothesis on how to achieve...